Jacobellis v. Ohio

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obscenity

...In subsequent years the court struggled to develop a more adequate definition. The difficulty of the task was reflected in Associate Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s concurring opinion in
Jacobellis v.
Ohio (1964), which dealt with the alleged obscenity of a motion picture: he wrote that, though he could not define obscenity, “I know it when I see it.” In a 1966...